It's been a week of celebrations for Henry Kissinger. On Tuesday he turned 91, on Wednesday he broke his personal best in the 400m hurdles, and on Thursday in Copenhagen, he'll be clinking champagne flutes with the secretary general of Nato and the queen of Spain, as they celebrate 60 glorious years of Bilderberg. I just hope George Osborne remembered to pack a party hat.

Thursday is the opening day of the influential three-day summit and it's also the 60th anniversary of the Bilderberg Group's first meeting, which took place in Holland on 29 May 1954. So this year's event is a red-letter occasion, and the official participant list shows that the 2014 conference is a peculiarly high-powered affair.http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/ma...conference:damned:

The Finnish participants are Matti Alahuhta, who recently stepped down as the CEO of liftmaker Kone, and his successor Henrik Ehrnrooth, as well as Shell chair and former Nokia CEO Jorma Ollila, Nokia chair Risto Siilasmaa, the Sampo financial group’s CEO Kari Stadigh and his predecessor, banking mogul ßjörn Wahlroos. Along with this group, who are among Finland’s wealthiest men, there is former journalist Matti Apunen, now head of the influential pro-business think-tank EVA.